this is the northeastern city of kharkiv being bombarded by russian missiles. killed 5 people and injured 13 civilians. the southern city of mariupol has been levelled by the campaign. the devastation comes as karl sat down with vladimir putin this week, the first european leader to do so since the war began. here s the chancellor today earlier on nbc. i think he s in his stone wall. you know, he thinks the war is necessary for security guarantees for the russian federation. he doesn t trust the international community. he blames ukrainians to for genocide in the donbas region. so, well, he is now in his world, but i think he knows what is going on now in ukraine. so the chancellor believes he thinks vladimir putin thinks he s winning the war, that he s still living in the same alternate reality that led him thinking that invading ukraine was actually a good idea. so to put it in another way for you, putin s own human being ris and isolation led him to badly judge ukrai
he doesn t trust the international community, he blames ukrainians for the donbas region so he is now in his i think he knows what is going on now in ukraine. so chancellor says he believes vladimir putin thinks he is winning the war, that he is still living in the same alternate reality that led him to think that invading ukraine was actually a good idea so to put it in another way for you, putin s own humorous and isolation led him to badly misjudging ukraine and putin continues to misjudged the situation day after day, week after week. this week alone you had finland and sweden stand up to russian threats and signal that they are actually taking steps towards joining nato of course as the thing goes, when a rat is backed into a corner he lashes out, so we saw prominent arrested in moscow this week just one day after he spoke to msnbc about the importance of standing his ground. there are millions of people in russia i think it would be very demoralizing just le
good evening, lawrence. good evening, alice. it s subpoena night here at msnbc. with mike pence making little history. could be the first vice president ever. we should never lose sight of the fact that the vice president is getting a subpoena to talk about the actions on the part of his own president as it relates to potentially fomenting an insurrection at the capitol to undermine democracy. the gravity should not be lost on us. yet another unique entry in the mike pence position and in vice presidential history. once again. a long history at this point, lawrence. thank you, alex. the breaking news of the, night if you just heard, is that mike pence has made history once again. this time as the first former vice president in history to receive a subpoena from a prosecutor investigating possible crimes committed by the president who the vice president served. special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed mike pence to give under oath grand jury testimony. washington po
pursuant to house regulation ten, the chair announces the committee s approval to release deposition material presented during this hearing. good afternoon. in our hearings over the previous weeks, the select committee has laid out the details of a multi part pressure campaign driven by the former president aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election and blocking the transfer of power. we have shown that this effort was based on a lie, a lie that the election was stolen, candid by why spread throughout of donald trump s big lie. in the weeks ahead, the committee will hold additional hearings about how donald trump summoned a mob of his supporters to washington, spurred them to march on the capitol and failed to take meaningful action to quell the violence as it was unfolding on january six. however, in recent days, the select committee has been paying new information, dealing with what was going on in the white house on january six and in the days pri
right now, two weeks of seismic supreme court decisions, starting with the reversal of federal abortion rights, have left americas political fault lines even deeper. on the one side of the divide, our blue states, racing to codify the abortion rights. and offer safe haven to women who may now have to cross the state lines for the procedure on the other side. on the other side is mostly red states, that have already seized upon this moment to ban abortions, with some conservative lawmakers in those states contemplating punishments for those that seek the procedure elsewhere. it s not just an outright national ban. of course roe v. wade s reversal was just one overruling of the by the court s conservative majority. guns, the environment, and voting rights, that illustrate just how conservative the supreme court truly is. by all accounts, will be for sometime. is america being remade by these rulings? that s the big question tonight on politicsnation. and another big question.